BJP Criticises Kerala Assembly Resolution Seeking Removal of Chief Election Commissioner

The BJP has criticised the Kerala Legislative Assembly's resolution calling for the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. BJP state chief Rajeev Chandrasekhar called it political theatre and argued the assembly should not have taken up a matter pending before the Supreme Court. He also questioned the credibility of the demand given the Congress-led UDF's own role in the process. Both Congress and CPM have maintained the SIR was hastily conducted and excluded genuine voters, while the ECI has rejected claims of dissent within its panel.

A resolution put forward in the assembly — one tied to the special intensive revision of electoral rolls and seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar — prompted the BJP to push back, with the party describing the move as a symbolic gesture orchestrated by Congress and CPM rather than any meaningful exercise of legislative authority. Via social media, he put forward the view that Congress and CPM — rivals at election time — effectively operate as a single political unit once voting in Kerala wraps up, and went on to argue that if the demand carried genuine force, the Congress-led UDF, which had held power after winning the previous state assembly election, along with the electoral officer from that period — now working as CM V D Satheesan's secretary — would need to account for their own positions. The CPM and Congress have each taken the position that the SIR process unfolded too hastily and excluded voters who were legitimately eligible.

BJP Criticises Kerala Assembly Resolution Seeking Removal of Chief Election Commissioner

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